As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, “This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

So they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?”

“And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.

When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.